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Wednesday 31 October 2012

Rosetta Stone and Google settle trademark lawsuit

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Monday 29 October 2012

Dying Satellites Could Lead to Shaky Weather Forecasts

WASHINGTON ? The United States is facing a year or more without crucial satellites that provide invaluable data for predicting storm tracks, a result of years of mismanagement, lack of financing and delays in launching replacements, according to several recent official reviews.

The looming gap in satellite coverage, which some experts view as almost certain within the next few years, could result in shaky forecasts about storms like Hurricane Sandy, which is expected to hit the East Coast early next week.

The endangered satellites fly pole-to-pole orbits and cross the Equator in the afternoon, scanning the entire planet one strip at a time. Along with orbiters on other timetables, they are among the most effective tools used to pin down the paths of major storms about five days ahead.

All this week, forecasters have been relying on such satellites for almost all the data needed to narrow down what were at first widely divergent computer models of what Hurricane Sandy would do next: hit the coast, or veer away into the open ocean?

Right on schedule, the five-day models began to agree on the likeliest answer. By Friday afternoon, the storm?s center was predicted to approach Delaware on Monday and Tuesday, with powerful winds, torrential rains and dangerous tides ranging over hundreds of miles.

New York and other states declared emergencies; the Navy ordered ships to sea to avoid damage. Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York City warned that no matter where or when the storm landed, the city would not escape its effects. And from the Carolinas to New England, public safety officials were urgently advising tens of millions of residents to prepare for the worst, including the possibility of historic flooding, power failures and snow.

Experiments show that without this kind of satellite data, forecasters would have underestimated by half the huge blizzard that hit Washington in 2010.

?We cannot afford to lose any enhancement that allows us to accurately forecast any weather event coming our way,? said Craig J. Craft, commissioner of emergency management for Nassau County on Long Island, where the great hurricane of 1938 killed hundreds. On Thursday, Mr. Craft was seeking more precise forecasts for Sandy and gearing up for possible evacuations of hospitals and nursing homes, as were ordered before Tropical Storm Irene last year. ?Without accurate forecasts it is hard to know when to pull that trigger,? he said.

Experts have grown increasingly alarmed in the past two years because the existing polar satellites are nearing or beyond their life expectancies, and the launch of the next replacement, known as J.P.S.S.-1, has slipped to 2017, probably too late to avoid a coverage gap of at least a year.

Prodded by lawmakers and auditors, the satellite program?s managers are just beginning to think through alternatives when the gap occurs, but these are unlikely to avoid it.

This summer, three independent reviews of the $13 billion program ? by the Commerce Department?s inspector general, the Government Accountability Office, and a team of outside experts ? each questioned the cost estimates for the program, criticized managers for not pinning down the designs and called for urgent remedies. The project is run by the Commerce Department?s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency, and NASA.

The outside review team, led by A. Thomas Young, an aerospace industry leader, called the management of the program ?dysfunctional.?

In response, top Commerce and NOAA officials on Sept. 18 ordered what they called an urgent restructuring ? just the latest overhaul of the troubled program. They streamlined the management, said they would fill major vacancies quickly and demanded immediate reports on how the agency planned to cope with the gap. They have moved quickly to nail down the specific designs of the J.P.S.S.-1?s components, many of them already partly built. And they promised to quickly complete a new independent cost estimate to verify the program?s budget.

Ciaran Clayton, NOAA?s communications director, said in a statement that the agency?s top priority was to provide timely, accurate forecasts to protect the public, and that it would?continue to develop and update plans to cover any potential gap.

The under secretary of commerce responsible for NOAA, Jane Lubchenco, issued the memorandum ordering the changes. In it, she wrote that the administration had been trying all along to fix ?this dysfunctional program that had become a national embarrassment due to chronic management problems.?

?It is a long, sad history,? said Dennis Hartmann, the chairman of a broad review of earth-observing satellite programs released in May by the National Research Council. The report projected a dismal decline in what has been a crown jewel of modern earth and atmospheric science.

The Joint Polar Satellite System also includes important sensors for studying the global climate, and these too are at risk.

But its main satellites are most notable because they put instruments to sense atmospheric moisture, temperature and the like into what is known as the ?polar p.m.? orbit, a passage from lower altitude that provides sharp and frequent images of global weather patterns. (Other satellites stare continuously at one part of the globe from farther off, for short-term forecasting.)

Polar satellites provide 84 percent of the data used in the main American computer model tracking Hurricane Sandy.

For years, as the accuracy of this kind of forecasting has steadily improved, NOAA?s p.m. polar satellites have been a crucial factor, like the center on a basketball team.

But all the while, despite many warnings, the coverage gap has grown ever more likely.

The department told Congress this summer that it could not come up with any way to launch J.P.S.S.-1 any sooner. Kathryn D. Sullivan, assistant secretary of commerce, said it would ?endeavor to maintain the launch date as much as practicable.?

The Government Accountability Office, which views a gap as ?almost certain,? has been urging NOAA to come up with alternatives, like leaning on other commercial, military or government satellites for helpful data. But it said it would take a long time and more money to get any such jury-rigged system running.

For now, the agency is running on a stopgap bill that allows it to redirect money from other projects to the polar satellites. In approving it, Congress demanded a plan by next week showing how NOAA intended to stay on schedule and within a strict limit ? about $900 million a year.

?NOAA does not have a policy to effect consistent and reliable cost estimates,? the Commerce inspector general said. The outside review team said it could not tell ?if the current $12.9 billion is high, low, or exactly correct.?

The program?s problems began a decade ago with an effort to merge military and civilian weather satellites into a single project. After its cost doubled and its schedule slipped five years, that project was sundered by the Obama administration.

As its existing satellites aged and the delays mounted, NOAA finally put a new model named Suomi into orbit a year ago that now helps bridge the gap until the next launchings, in 2017 and in 2022 ? two and four years late, respectively.

But there are lingering concerns that technical glitches have shortened Suomi?s useful lifetime, perhaps to just three years. Predicting a satellite?s lifetime is like trying to guess when a light bulb will go out. The most likely timing of a gap in coverage is between 2016 and 2018, according to the best official estimates.

That would ?threaten life and property,? the independent review team warned.

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/27/us/dying-satellites-could-lead-to-shaky-weather-forecasts.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

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Friday 26 October 2012

Google Nexus 10 leaks: Android 4.2, Exynos 5250 (1.7GHz), 2,560 x 1,600 resolution

Unless we're looking at one of the most elaborately photographed fakes in the world, this is the Nexus 10. With the Nexus 7 apparently going over quite well at just $199, it was only ever a matter of time before the Nexus family expanded to house a 10-incher. With Google's own Vic Gundotra posting images from a unit that he's using at some exotic locale, it seems that another unit has slipped beneath the camera at BriefMobile. The site has managed to apprehend one of the 10.1-inch slates, and in turn has discovered quite the bounty of information.

Internally, there's (reportedly) a dual-core, Cortex-A15-based 1.7GHz Samsung Exynos 5250, a Mali-T604 GPU, 2GB of RAM, 16GB of internal storage (though no microSD expansion slot), a 5 megapixel rear-facing camera, NFC / WiFi, Bluetooth 4.0 and a Super AMOLED panel with a drool-worthy 2,560 x 1,600 screen resolution -- yeah, that's well into "Retina" territory at 298.9 pixels per inch. You may recognize that Exynos 5250 from Google's recently released $249 Chromebook, but here, it's being used to push Android 4.2. Those hungry for more can visit the source link, but don't go in hoping to extract an asking price.

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Wednesday 24 October 2012

BeanCounter is new business management software for Mac OS X ...

It?s likely you use a set tone or a panicky spouse to help you rouse from your slumber, mind, rather than a sound you actually want to hear. EnSight Media?s latest app Radio Alarm Clock helps to make waking up as enjoyable or bearable as possible, though, offering several radio stations and tones to choose from. Manchul Ko, CMO of Ensight Media,... | Read more ?

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Facebook Share Soars 22 Percent In The Wake Of Quarterly Earnings

Wall Street responds with enthusiasm to Facebook's earnings. Shares (NASDAQ:FB) are currently trading 22 percent above yesterday's price. During the earnings call, the company announced that 14 percent of ad revenue are now coming from mobile ads. It is both a meaningful part of Facebook's revenue and a shift investors were waiting for.

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Tuesday 23 October 2012

Microsoft Surface already backordered in US, sells out in UK

Microsoft is bullish about the future of Windows 8 and the Surface tablet. Others aren't so sure.?

By Matthew Shaer / October 22, 2012

The Microsoft Surface tablet.

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Ordered a Microsoft Surface tablet? You may not see it for several weeks.?

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College!: The Higher Education Bubble

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The Higher Education Bubble

The Higher Education Bubble by Glenn Harlan Reynolds is an inexpensive new book in the "Encounter Broadside" series that fires all cannons at the high-priced ship that is the American university system. ?According to Reynolds, a major "market correction" for higher education could be just around the corner, because "Bubbles burst when there are no longer enough excessively optimistic and ignorant folks to fuel them." Like many in our course, the American people are beginning to understand that a very expensive college degree that requires you to take on a boat-load of debt has become a risky proposition, especially during this protracted economic crisis. ?Reynolds makes it clear that the higher education bubble is parallel to the housing bubble and its bursting is just as inevitable. ?In fact, I don't think he does enough to draw the parallels, beginning with the way that government policies encouraging home ownership AND "college for all" have contributed a lot of hot air to both. ?Unlike the housing bubble, though, when the higher education bubble bursts, not all houses will fall: the most likely to suffer severely and even founder during the coming set-back will be those institutions that are expensive and have not succeeded in preparing their students to pay back their debts ?-- especially the weaker law schools (and Reynolds should know, since he is a law professor). ?

Though a bit short on facts or specific figures, this pamphlet does a good job of painting the big picture in broad strokes. ?It's the sort of thing I wish I had read a couple years ago, before I became interested in this topic and reached the same conclusions myself. ?Reynolds's advice to both students and institutions is "do not take on more debt" with a possible correction around the corner -- which makes you worry about the $750 million bond that Rutgers and other state institutions are pursuing (though some of the project is more like refinancing than new borrowing). ?Those interested in learning more about the "bubble" argument without buying a book should check out the excellent presentation and video on "The Higher Education Bubble" from educationnews.org.

Source: http://college201.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-higher-education-bubble.html

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Monday 22 October 2012

Klein, No. 4 K-State rout No. 17 WVU 55-14

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) ? The final touchdown pass drew only a slight fist pump from Collin Klein. It was still the third quarter, but Milan-Puskar Stadium was half-empty. Most of the West Virginia fans had seen enough of a game that had turned into a Heisman Trophy campaign ad for the Kansas State quarterback.

Klein threw for a career-high 323 yards and three touchdowns and ran for four scores as No. 4 Kansas State got little resistance from No. 17 West Virginia in a 55-14 victory Saturday night.

The Wildcats (7-0, 4-0 Big 12) made it look easy. Klein completed 19 of 21 passes and added 41 yards rushing.

"I think we all felt comfortable tonight," he said. "The coaches did a great job of building a game plan and putting us in positions to succeed."

No doubt. The Wildcats scored on their first eight possessions, including seven straight touchdowns.

"He doesn't do anything wrong," West Virginia coach Dana Holgorsen said of Klein. "He's hard to tackle. He gets them in good plays. He doesn't turn the ball over. You can say what you want to about the throwing motion, but it goes exactly where he wants it go. He's a good football player."

Way too good for West Virginia to stop.

It was no surprise the Mountaineers (5-2, 2-2) were awful on defense ? it's been that way all season. For the second straight game, though, Geno Smith and the offense did nothing to keep it close.

Smith followed up a clunker at Texas Tech last week with an even worse game, throwing his first two interceptions of the season and finishing 21 of 32 for 143 yards. The senior has gone from Heisman Trophy front-runner to long shot in two weeks.

"We talked about it all week. Don't get impatient. Don't get impatient," Holgorsen said. "You have the ball a couple of times and you look up there and you're down 17 points and you start pressing. It's inevitable.

"We're trying to score 14 points in one play."

Kansas State made it 52-7 with 2:25 left in the third quarter when Klein hit Tyler Lockett over the middle for a 20-yard score. Klein turned toward his sideline and gave a modest shake of his fist before joining his teammates to celebrate. It was the fourth time this season the Wildcats had scored in the 50s.

By that point a long line of cars was creeping out of the parking lot. The only section of the stadium that was still filled was covered in KSU purple.

"I was certainly pleased with the way that our youngsters approached the ballgame, the preparation for the game and how they traveled," said Bill Snyder, whose remarkable 21-year, two-act career as Kansas State coach is only missing a national championship. "I was proud of how they kept their focus. We played great."

The optimism and excitement that was pumping through Morgantown a couple of weeks ago is gone.

In Manhattan, Kan., it's all good, and everything is on the table for Snyder's team. The Wildcats are the only unbeaten squad in the Big 12. Their quarterback is the Heisman front-runner. And with five games left on the schedule, the Wildcats are serious national title contenders.

The first meeting since 1931 of the new Big 12 rivals was so lopsided that by the time it was over it was hard to even remember that it started as a battle for first place in the conference.

On one side was Klein, aka Optimus Klein, the Wildcats' methodical battering ram, whose passes don't look like much, but usually find their target.

On the other side was Smith, the future NFL first-round draft pick with the video game passing statistics.

But Klein got to face West Virginia's beleaguered defense, which ranks near the bottom of the Big 12 and the country in just about every statistic.

With the Mountaineers seemingly determined to at least stop the run early, Klein completed his first seven passes, including a 10-yard touchdown that Lockett made a stretching, toe-dragging catch on in the back corner of the end zone. That made it 10-0 in the first.

The K-State running game went to work on the third drive and Klein finished it off with a 1-yard plunge.

Klein made it 24-0 on the next Kansas State drive, taking an option keeper 8 yards. That gave him 39 rushing touchdowns over the last two seasons to break an FBS record held by Eric Crouch of Nebraska and Stacey Robinson of Northern Illinois.

Tavon Austin finally put a little life back into the sellout crowd when he took the ensuing kickoff back 100 yards for a score with 4:12 left in the first half.

The bad news for West Virginia was that it gave the Wildcats more than enough time to get the ball back in the end zone ? which they did with another 1-yard dive by Klein.

The first-half onslaught went like this for Kansas State: five possessions, 346 yards, four touchdowns and a field goal. The offense was unstoppable and the defense was just as good, holding Smith to 62 yards by flooding the secondary with defenders and getting a pass rush without blitzing much.

"I thought our defense played well and played aggressive and pursued the ball," Snyder said. "We had a relentless pass rush and we got our hands on Geno Smith."

Maybe the pressure of having to score every time he touches the ball has gotten to Smith, too. That trip to New York for the Heisman Trophy presentation, which seemed like a lock after the Mountaineers won at Texas, is now in serious doubt.

"This is about as low as it gets," Smith said.

As for Klein and the Wildcats, they will face tougher tests. The gap between the top and the bottom of the Big 12 doesn't seem all that wide. But they have now won three conference road games, including at Oklahoma. They came into the weekend fourth in the BCS standings, behind Alabama, Florida and Oregon.

With their 73-year-old coach pushing all the right buttons and their happily married quarterback making all the right plays, the Wildcats might be due for a promotion.

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Follow Ralph D. Russo at www.Twitter.com/ralphdrussoAP

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